T. TEX EDWARDS FAMILY TREE

NERVEBREAKERS

T. Tex Edwards is an unsung pioneer of cowpunk and honky tonk murder ballads who started out in the '70s with the punk band the Nervebreakers. Thom "Tex" Edwards' whiskey-soaked vocals already had a slight country twang to them back in 1978 even as the band performed their goofy anthems while supporting the Sex Pistols in Dallas. Drawing influence from the Flamin' Groovies and the Cramps rather than the more political end of the punk spectrum, the Nervebreakers were equally at home lampooning "You're The One That I Want" from Grease as they were playing it straight (relatively) with the Kinks' "I'm Not Like Everybody Else." Their original material was rousing and funny, and "My Girlfriend Is A Rock" was even a minor hit in San Francisco. The band never released a full-length record in their lifetime, even though they had an almost legendary local reputation. A live performance of them backing Roky Erickson at the Dallas Palladium in 1979 was released in 1992, and a posthumous CD recorded in 1980, We Want Everything!, was finally released by Get Hip in 2000.

01 - [1978] Politics 7" (2021 Remaster)

A deluxe remastered reissue of 1978 original Wild Child Records single by badass Texas punk rock band the Nervebreakers! Like all Texas punk of the era, this is no letdown, including two smash hits on this 4-song EP.

01 - Politics
02 - My Life Is Ruined
03 - I Can't Help You
04 - My Girlfriend Is A Rock

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02 - [1980] We Want Everything! (2000 Reissue)

Hailing from Dallas, TX, the Nervebreakers first got together in 1973 but didn’t take off until the mid-’70s punk movement started to affect most larger urban areas of the US. The Nervebreakers quickly rose to the top of the pack in Dallas releasing three singles which are now hard to find. This CD was recorded in 1980 and was to have been their debut LP.

01 - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
02 - My Girlfriend Is A Rock
03 - Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls
04 - I Confess
05 - I Don't Believe In Anything
06 - I've Got A Problem
07 - How Can You Tell
08 - Strange Movies
09 - Let's Fall Apart
10 - What's Left Of Me
11 - The Race Is On
12 - Stand Up

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03 - [1981] Girls Girls Girls Girls 7" (2011 Reissue)

On 19 November 1980 the Nervebreakers won the "Agora's Battle Of The Bands" in Dallas TX. Their prize was free recording time at Pantego Sound Studios in Arlington, TX where these two songs were recorded. The single was originally released in 1981 on Wild Child Records, but by then the band had already parted company.

Great single by Dallas 70's Punk-rock band! A-side is a catchy original track and is backed with a cool cover of a Rolling Stones classic marked with the Nervebreakers snotty style.

01 - Girls Girls Girls Girls
02 - I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys

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04 - [2000] Hijack The Radio! (2017 Reissue)

An anthology of mid to late '70s studio recordings, some of which ended up on the Nervebreakers' late-70s 7″ vinyl releases on Wild Child Records, some on the 1979 Texas punk LP compilation Are We Too Late For The Trend? (ESR Records), some on a volume of Italian label Rave Up Records series of American Lost Punk Rock Nuggets, and others that have up-to-now never been publicly released.

Includes the original (and best) hit recording of “My Girlfriend Is A Rock”, the title anthem “Hijack The Radio!”, and punk classics like ”Why Am I So Flipped?”, “I Wanna Kill You”, and “I Love Your Neurosis”. Also included are proto-punk psych-y gems like “My Life Is Ruined” and “Beyond The Borderline”.

The CD release has four additional CD-only bonus cuts including an early (different from the We Want Everything LP) take on the Troggs' great “Strange Movies”, an original 1977 demo version of “Hijack The Radio”, and from 1975, a moody slice of Syd Barrett-like proto-punk-psych called “See Me Thru”.

01 - Hijack The Radio!
02 - My Girlfriend Is A Rock
03 - Why Am I So Flipped?
04 - My Life Is Ruined
05 - I Love Your Neurosis
06 - Everything Right
07 - Missa Moses
08 - So Sorry
09 - I Wanna Kill You
10 - It's Too Late
11 - Beyond The Borderline
12 - Part Of My Love
13 - See Me Thru
14 - Strange Movies
15 - Hijack The Radio! ('77 Demo)

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05 - [2014] I Wanna Kill You 7"

This brilliant single features an original 1977 alternate track from The Nervebreakers' LP Hijack The Radio! while the B-side premieres "They Were Doin' The Pogo" a  newer recording.

01 - I Wanna Kill You
02 - They Were Doin' The Pogo

Track 01 recorded early 1977 at Highgrove House, Dallas, TX.
Track 02 recorded 2008 at Ash Creek Estates Recording, Dallas, TX.

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ROKY ERICKSON & THE NERVEBREAKERS

Despite possessing great talents and a voice that can squeeze emotion from a stone if necessary, Roky Erickson's life and music career have been a mess; he was one of many casualties of the psychedelic '60s. So it's always a joy when another Erickson tape is discovered and the quality is superior. Erickson is in fine form for this 1979 Dallas gig with the Nervebreakers. The musicians are tight and focused as they run through classics such as "Starry Eyes," "Cold Night For Alligators," "You're Gonna Miss Me," and "Two-Headed Dog." The sound quality is sharp and far less challenging than the bootleg quality of Live at the Ritz 1987. Most exciting is the material. The obvious favorites are here, but so are "The Wind And More," "Mine Mine Mind," "Bermuda," and "White Faces," tunes he recorded with The Aliens. They're done with high spirits and some inspired guitar playing.

[1992] Live Dallas 1979

01 - The Wind And More
02 - Starry Eyes
03 - Mine Mine Mind
04 - Bermuda
05 - Cold Night For Alligators
06 - The Interpreter
07 - You're Gonna Miss Me
08 - I Walked With A Zombie
09 - Bo Diddley's A Headhunter
10 - Two-Headed Dog
11 - Bloody Hammer
12 - White Faces

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TEX EDWARDS & OUT ON PAROLE

Edwards' first post-Nervebreakers outfit, Tex & The Saddle Tramps, left scarce but vital documentation, such as the churlish rocker "Move It!" that later would appear on The Loafin' Hyenas record and be covered by LeRoi Brothers. Still most of the T. Tex legend from the early to mid-'80s remains only in the recollections of those fortunate enough to catch him performing his offbeat brand of incorrigible country live. His growling redneck delivery is at times unhinged, but it's instantly recognizable, highly addictive, and consistently manages to hit the narrow margin between parody and reverence, often accomplishing both.

He formed Out On Parole in Austin in 1984, and The Loafin' Hyenas in Hollywood in 1986, but it took until 1989 before things finally started moving forward. His first solo album -- as Tex Edwards & Out on Parole -- was a stroke of demented genius that caused a stir when cult label Sympathy for the Record Industry released it yet proved more an inspiration than the chart-topper it should have been. Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill was a collection of "psycho-country" covers done with a relatively straight face and high musical pedigree -- LeRoi Brothers/Fabulous Thunderbirds alumni Mike Buck was the driving force behind the album. It's not only Johnny Cash who wrote dark country and western songs of adultery and murder; Pardon Me collects obscure, nutty gems from the likes of Johnny Paycheck (the title song), Porter Wagoner ("Rubber Room"), and Lee Hazlewood ("Girl on Death Row"), not to mention the twisted genius of Leon Payne's "Psycho." The same ground would be covered in the following decade, sometimes with song selections oddly similar to Pardon Me, but rarely with the same gravelly brilliance.

[1989] Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill (2002 Reissue)

01 - I'm A-Gonna Kill You
02 - L.S.D. Made A Wreck Out Of Me
03 - (Pardon Me) I've Got Someone To Kill
04 - The Girl On Death Row
05 - Psycho
06 - You Ain't Never Gonna Live To Love Saturday Night Again
07 - Smitty
08 - The Cold Hard Facts Of Life
09 - Dolores
10 - Beatin' On The Bars
11 - Strangler In The Night
12 - The Rubber Room
13 - Country Hix's
14 - Last Will And Testament (Of A Drinking Man)

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THE LOAFIN' HYENAS

The 1991 release of The Loafin' Hyenas' only LP was mostly ignored despite strong original material and another killer band. Songs like "Can't Find The Doorknob" and "Scratchin' Fleas" utilized Tex's distinctive vocals perfectly, and the drunken abandon of the band was captured, bottled, and released only in France and Japan. Further recordings followed under various guises and numerous small labels. T. Tex And The Big "D" Ramblers, DisGraceland, and T. Tex And The Sickoids were a few that made it to record, and one-off projects like 1999's 18-song Texicated Tape were mostly circulated among the faithful.

[1991] The Loafin' Hyenas

01 - Can't Find The Doorknob
02 - Boot In The Toilet
03 - Bonehusker Stomp
04 - Goin' South
05 - Scatter
06 - Way Of The World
07 - Scratchin' Fleas
08 - Move It
09 - Klawhammer Krunch
10 - Forbidden See
11 - Diablo_Devil
12 - If Looks Could Kill
13 - Things Must Change
14 - What Goes On

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T. TEX EDWARDS & THE SWINGIN' KORNFLAKE KILLERS

After a long silence, the full-length Up Against the Floor was released in 1996. The Swingin' Kornflake Killers backed a slightly toned-down Edwards on a selection of offbeat covers (David Bowie's "Black Country Rock" and Conway Twitty's "Lonely Blue Boy") as well as equally memorable originals like the instant standard "Ain't No Bars In Heaven." A while later the Nervebreakers announced they were regrouping after their "slight" 27-year hiatus. T. Tex remains a pioneering, under-appreciated, and often neglected chronicler of the offbeat and eccentric traditions of country rock & roll.

[1996] Up Against The Floor (2007 Reissue)

01 - Overture: Dirtweed
02 - Ain't No Bars In Heaven
03 - Funnel Of Love
04 - One Helluva Weekend
05 - The Living & The Dead
06 - Lonely Blue Boy
07 - Iff'n I Ain't Dead
08 - How Far Down Can I Go
09 - Gonna Love My Baby Now
10 - Whiskey Trip
11 - Cat's Back
12 - Black Country Rock
13 - It's Over (Last Date)
14 - Killer Breakdown
15 - Baby (Crazy Date)

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AND FINALLY

T. Tex Edwards - [2012] Intexicated!

T. Tex Edwards "remains a pioneering, under-appreciated, and often neglected chronicler of the offbeat and eccentric traditions of country rock 'n' roll," notes All Music Guide. Intexicated! remedies any neglect of this wild and wooly Texas musical treasure with 19 collected odds, sods, unreleased recordings, demos, outtakes and offbeat gems from throughout his distinctively different musical career spent kicking up some seriously cool and twisted dust from the roots rocking underground.

Featuring work under his own name as well as such T. Tex outfits as The Loafin' Hyenas, Tex & The Saddle Tramps and The Swingin' Kornflake Killers are such top T. Tex moments as renditions of Psycho and Lee Harvey, his classic Move It (also recorded by The LeRoi Brothers), takes on Dave Davies' Kinks hit Death Of A Clown and Baby's Got A Gun by The Only Ones, and to wrap it all up, a demo of a commercial Tex cut for the Chili's restaurant chain. It's an intexicating collection from an artist of uncommonly cool off-kilter brilliance.

01 - The Big D Ramblers - Intexicated! Part 1
02 - Purple Stickpin - Baby's Got A Gun
03 - Lithium X-mas - Love Power
04 - Out On Parole - L.S.D.
05 - Tex & The Saddletramps - Move It
06 - The Loafin' Hyenas - If Looks Could Kill
07 - The Swingin' Kornflake Killers - Cravin'
08 - Hickoids - Lee Harvey
09 - The Big D Ramblers - It's Gravity
10 - Tex & The Saddletramps - Have You Ever Spent The Night In Jail?
11 - Tex & The Saddletramps - Thirteen Women
12 - Out On Parole - Crazy Date
13 - Mechanical Bull - Blood On The Saddle
14 - Out On Parole - Psycho '84
15 - The Loafin' Hyenas - Goin' Down South
16 - Lithium X-mas - Nobody Likes Me
17 - The Toe Tags - Death Of A Clown
18 - The Big D Ramblers - Intexicated! Part 2
19 - Tex & Breakfastime - Chili's Demo

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